La Lógica de la Mentira
La Lógica de la Mentira

Author: Natanael Mèndez Matos

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-08-17

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1304133591

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La Lógica de la Mentira, es un reflejo del espejismo claro oscuro de la ética de la verdad, que tiene su desenlace en un silogismo falso que parte de premisas incompletas que justifican una idea errada; o, una decisión de trascendencia general que tiene una implicación futura, fatalista y determinista en perjuicio de las generaciones por nacer. La Lógica de la Mentira, es una obra que trata sobre los mecanismos de defensa que las personas, son propensa usar en situaciones que requieren una salida rápida sin evaluar las causas y consecuencias de la decisión asumida, que pudiera en lo inmediato o a largo plazo, perjudicar a terceros; y estos, a su vez, puedan perjudicar a otras personas, configurándose una cadena entrelazada de actuaciones, que tiene en principio su origen, en una mentira aparentemente lógica. Por ejemplo, es frecuente ver, como las decisiones de los Estados Naciones, Políticos, Jueces, Fiscales, y el Ciudadano común, están básicamente arraigadas en prejuicios.

A World for Julius
A World for Julius

Author: Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780299196745

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Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather's ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius's father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through her children's lives like an ephemeral shooting star. Despite the soft shelter of family and money, hard realities overshadow Julius's expanding world, just as the rugged Andes loom over his home in Lima. This lyrical, richly textured novel, first published in 1970 as Un mundo para Julius, opens new territory in Latin American literature with its focus on the social elite of Peru. In this postmodern novel Bryce Echenique incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family faced with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s. Winner of the Outstanding Translation Award of the American Literary Translators Association and the Columbia University Translation Center Award.

The Tunnel
The Tunnel

Author: Ernesto Sabato

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-06-26

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1101659548

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One of the great short novels of the twentieth century—in an edition marking the 100th anniversary of the author's birth. An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was championed by Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, and Graham Greene upon its publication in 1948 and went on to become an international bestseller. At its center is an artist named Juan Pablo Castel, who recounts from his prison cell his murder of a woman named María Iribarne. Obsessed from the moment he sees her examining one of his paintings, Castel fantasizes for months about how they might meet again. When he happens upon her one day, a relationship develops that convinces him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia leads him to destroy the one thing he truly cares about. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Let's Kill Uncle
Let's Kill Uncle

Author: Rohan O'Grady

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-08-02

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1408813807

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When recently-orphaned Barnaby Gaunt is sent to stay with his uncle on a beautiful remote island off the coast of Canada, he is all set to have the perfect summer holiday. Except for one small problem: his uncle is trying to kill him. Heir to a ten-million-dollar fortune, Barnaby tries to tell everyone and anyone that his uncle is after his inheritance, but no one will believe him. That is, until he tells the only other child on the island, Chrissie, who concludes that there is only one way to stop his demonic uncle: Barnaby will just have to kill him first. With the unexpected help of One-Ear, the aged cougar who has tormented the island for years, Chrissie and Barnaby hatch a fool-proof plan. Playful, dark and witty, Let's Kill Uncle is a surprising tale of two ordinary children who conspire to execute an extraordinary murder - and get away with it.